Comments on: Democracy at DreamHost http://blog.dreamhost.com/2008/11/25/democracy-at-dreamhost/ Tales From the Inside! Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:18:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Gwyneth Llewelyn http://blog.dreamhost.com/2008/11/25/democracy-at-dreamhost/comment-page-1/#comment-129771 Gwyneth Llewelyn Thu, 25 Dec 2008 21:55:57 +0000 http://blog.dreamhost.com/?p=993#comment-129771 Dallas, I'd also welcome if you address how you see the extension of "democracy in the workplace" towards the customers as well. Yes, I'm aware of several aspects of "democratic procedures" applying to customers: they get ample information; if they post things against DH on DH-hosted blogs, you don't remove their accounts (or at least I think you don't!); and there is a little-used feature voting tool. Perhaps an article detailing on how DH is thinking of engaging customers <i>more</i> in the decision-making process would be nice. Dallas, I’d also welcome if you address how you see the extension of “democracy in the workplace” towards the customers as well. Yes, I’m aware of several aspects of “democratic procedures” applying to customers: they get ample information; if they post things against DH on DH-hosted blogs, you don’t remove their accounts (or at least I think you don’t!); and there is a little-used feature voting tool.

Perhaps an article detailing on how DH is thinking of engaging customers more in the decision-making process would be nice.

]]> By: Dallas Kashuba http://blog.dreamhost.com/2008/11/25/democracy-at-dreamhost/comment-page-1/#comment-124806 Dallas Kashuba Fri, 12 Dec 2008 19:52:01 +0000 http://blog.dreamhost.com/?p=993#comment-124806 You guys are correct that this post did not actually include much information about how we specifically are democratic. This is intended as the first of a few posts on the topic and is laying down some background on the concept of democracy in the workplace. I guess I didn't make that very clear, but I did say this towards the beginning.. "I’ll start things off with a bit of an overview of the concepts of democracy that apply to how we run things." I just didn't mention that more posts on the topic are planned! You guys are correct that this post did not actually include much information about how we specifically are democratic. This is intended as the first of a few posts on the topic and is laying down some background on the concept of democracy in the workplace.

I guess I didn’t make that very clear, but I did say this towards the beginning.. “I’ll start things off with a bit of an overview of the concepts of democracy that apply to how we run things.”

I just didn’t mention that more posts on the topic are planned!

]]> By: tavis http://blog.dreamhost.com/2008/11/25/democracy-at-dreamhost/comment-page-1/#comment-120841 tavis Tue, 02 Dec 2008 03:42:21 +0000 http://blog.dreamhost.com/?p=993#comment-120841 When I worked at DreamHost, I was the storage guy. We were always playing catchup with disk space and filer deployments. Then Josh announced a huge sale he was going to put into affect which gave customers a whole lot more disk space. I posted a message to the internal message list with a subject something like "Fear of the Sale" where I voiced my concern about running out of disk space because of the sale. Josh responded by postponing the sale for a few days even though he believed (and was correct) that the sale wouldn't in fact increase disk usage all that much. Democractic ? I think it is. When I worked at DreamHost, I was the storage guy. We were always playing catchup with disk space and filer deployments. Then Josh announced a huge sale he was going to put into affect which gave customers a whole lot more disk space. I posted a message to the internal message list with a subject something like “Fear of the Sale” where I voiced my concern about running out of disk space because of the sale. Josh responded by postponing the sale for a few days even though he believed (and was correct) that the sale wouldn’t in fact increase disk usage all that much. Democractic ? I think it is.

]]> By: Mike M http://blog.dreamhost.com/2008/11/25/democracy-at-dreamhost/comment-page-1/#comment-120019 Mike M Sat, 29 Nov 2008 23:07:47 +0000 http://blog.dreamhost.com/?p=993#comment-120019 We were going to tell you all our secrets, but we voted against it. :) We were going to tell you all our secrets, but we voted against it. :)

]]> By: sdayman http://blog.dreamhost.com/2008/11/25/democracy-at-dreamhost/comment-page-1/#comment-118862 sdayman Wed, 26 Nov 2008 21:32:30 +0000 http://blog.dreamhost.com/?p=993#comment-118862 Me three. The one bit I did get is that voting isn't the only aspect of democracy. And the pictures don't really enhance the message. Maybe Josh bumped off Dallas halfway through the post (rather than voting him out). Me three. The one bit I did get is that voting isn’t the only aspect of democracy. And the pictures don’t really enhance the message. Maybe Josh bumped off Dallas halfway through the post (rather than voting him out).

]]> By: makkale.blogcu.com http://blog.dreamhost.com/2008/11/25/democracy-at-dreamhost/comment-page-1/#comment-118855 makkale.blogcu.com Wed, 26 Nov 2008 21:06:27 +0000 http://blog.dreamhost.com/?p=993#comment-118855 I'm sure you know what you're doing www.makkale.blogcu.com I’m sure you know what you’re doing http://www.makkale.blogcu.com

]]> By: Tim http://blog.dreamhost.com/2008/11/25/democracy-at-dreamhost/comment-page-1/#comment-118818 Tim Wed, 26 Nov 2008 15:31:30 +0000 http://blog.dreamhost.com/?p=993#comment-118818 And I'm a Private Server customer who has waited over a month to be moved to the new hardware ... yet still hasn't been moved :( And I’m a Private Server customer who has waited over a month to be moved to the new hardware … yet still hasn’t been moved :(

]]> By: BUGabundo http://blog.dreamhost.com/2008/11/25/democracy-at-dreamhost/comment-page-1/#comment-118736 BUGabundo Wed, 26 Nov 2008 09:53:23 +0000 http://blog.dreamhost.com/?p=993#comment-118736 yeah, I'm with Maverick on this one yeah, I’m with Maverick on this one

]]> By: Maverick http://blog.dreamhost.com/2008/11/25/democracy-at-dreamhost/comment-page-1/#comment-118731 Maverick Wed, 26 Nov 2008 09:03:07 +0000 http://blog.dreamhost.com/?p=993#comment-118731 Is it me or haven't you actually given any information to what makes Dreamhost so democratic? Only thing that I've read about that is that Dreamhost has a polling system built into the internal employee tools? Is it me or haven’t you actually given any information to what makes Dreamhost so democratic?
Only thing that I’ve read about that is that Dreamhost has a polling system built into the internal employee tools?

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